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I've been working on putting together a crafting weekend retreat in my area and its made me think about how people find out about crafting classes and events. Most of our scrapbooking stores have closed down near me and I know some folks travel to a store a few towns away, but I know there are people hosting and looking to attend events that don't want to travel that far.

I always seem to hear after the fact about fun events and I know there are people out there that would be interested in mine but I don't know how to reach them. So, I was curious, how do you hear about events you like to go to? Is there some secret website that lists events, word of mouth through friends, etc?

I bet there are lots of awesome events I'm missing out on and cool people I'd love to meet too.

The way I've heard about some events that come to my area is we have several different "community" newspapers (I see an advertisement in it or a small article about the event). Our City newspaper puts out a magazine of upcoming local events, entertainment (movies, plays) every Thursday. Also our only local Stamp store puts up a notice in their store and on their website. Our local libraries have bulletin boards that post local events and entertainments.
Could you teach a class through your local school district's Community Education classes given at night for adults ( our children's middle and high school let us hold them in their buildings). Does your community hold local craft shows before Christmas? Some churches, temples, schools have them in their buildings. Take a table and sell some amazing creations. Bring some fliers of up coming events. Put out some fliers in your neighborhood mailboxes or shopping center. If you do church or temple see if they put out a news letter/or web site for up coming events.Decide what age bracket or Mothers who need a night out. Check out how people advertise for home parties (jewelry, food) how they get the word out. For your event say "if you bring a new friend you get something". Do up some special goodie bags if the people do certain things: bring someone new,place an order,make cards to swap or donate to Ronald McDonald .Bring a Make & Take Item for people to create.

Usually I hear about it through an email from a friend, who hears about it from her demo, who seems to know all the other demos and tons of stampers in the city (and who also seems to know about all the stamping events going on).